Signal — Open Source iPhone App to Make Free End-to-End Encrypted Voice Calls

Good News for Privacy Lovers!! An open source software group Open Whisper Systems has released the first free and Open Source phone call application for iPhone users, which is specifically designed to make secure and encrypted calls. When we talk about the privacy of our messages and voice calls,...

Google Releases End-to-End Encryption Extension

Google has released an early version of a Chrome extension that provides end-to-end encryption for data leaving the browser. The extension will allow users to encrypt emails from their webmail accounts. The move by Google is another step in the process of making Web communications more secure and...

ProtonMail.ch Header Injection / CSRF

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ProtonMail: 'NSA-Proof' End-to-End Encrypted Email Service

The Edward Snowden revelations triggered a large-scale movement worldwide towards deploying encryption across the Internet for secure services, which is something the government agencies like NSA and GCHQ have targeted repeatedly, as exemplified by abruptly shutting down Lavabit, a Texas-based...

Better Security, 'Progressive Encryption' in Silent Text 2.0

Silent Circle has released a new version of its private text messaging and secure file transfer service for Android and iOS mobile devices. Silent Text 2.0 includes a number of security and user-interface upgrades. The company claims this version eliminates a keying delay issue that existed in...

XMPP Makes Encryption Mandatory for Instant Messaging Service Operators

The most popular open source Instant messaging application based on the ‘Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol’ XMPP, formerly known as Jabber that enables you to connect with other people over the Internet will begin refusing unencrypted connections as from today. In an announcement...

Cryptocat offers End-to End Encryption For Facebook Messenger

It’s an era of Mass Surveillance, where Encryption has become more important today for all of us than any other time in the History. But the trouble is that Crypto programs are too hard for Non-Internet-Savvy to implement and use. Time is loudly announcing the need to switch to some alternatives...

Coalition Calls For Net Reset in June

A new alliance composed of privacy and digital rights advocates are encouraging internet users to block mass surveillance and fight back against the National Security Agency on June 5. The coalition, dubbed Reset the Net is hoping to carry out its goal through the further implementation of SSL,...

Twitter enables StartTLS for Secure Emails to prevent Snooping

TWITTER is taking users' privacy and security very seriously and in an effort to prevent Government snooping, the company has secured your Twitter emails with with TLS Transport Layer Security. Twitter emails were previously using a plain text communication protocol, that now has been upgraded to...

Vodafone Germany rolls out SIM Card-based end-to-end Encryption

Since mobile has become a basic need for every common as well as important figure now a days. So, every company is highly working to find more effective ways to protect sensitive data of their users and in the race, Vodafone lead the game. In collaboration with its security partner Giesecke &...

Encrypted Chat Service 'Cryptocat' released iOS app

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TextSecure: End-to-End encrypted and Open Source Messaging app

With revelations of NSA spying and some of the most jaw-dropping surveillance leaks, many people feel unencrypted and central-server service is bad in most of the cases, but end-to-end encryption can be used to reduce this problem. Worldwide Government surveillance raises privacy concerns and...

5 Best WhatsApp alternatives with end-to-end Encryption

WhatsApp acquisition may have had a negative impact on the reputation of the company, it seems many users are planning to switch the service and a few of them have already done it. In our previous article, we have mentioned that why you should switch from WhatsApp to an encrypted Chat messaging...

Why You need to Stop using WhatsApp?

If you haven’t heard by now, Facebook just made its biggest move ever, buying the messaging service WhatsApp in a deal worth some $19 billion. That’s 19 times what Facebook paid for Instagram two years ago. The WhatsApp Service run by the team of just 32 engineers, handles more than 50 Billion...

Moxie Marlinspike on TextSecure CyanogenMod integration

Moxie Marlinspike Moxie Marlinspike has published landmark research on SSL vulnerabilities, taken on certificate authorities and even built an alternative to CAs as we know them today called Convergence. But now that government surveillance and online privacy have been elevated to mainstream...

Apple releases new details on National Security Requests

Apple revealed on monday that it received between 4,000 and 5,000 data requests in six months from U.S. law enforcement for user information and affected accounts. Apple said the most common forms of requests involved investigating robberies and other crimes. Period between December 1, 2012 and M...

Apple Fields Data Requests for 10,000 Users Accounts

Since December, U.S. law enforcement agencies have made between 4,000 and 5,000 requests for customer data from Apple on as many 10,000 user accounts, the company said in a statement released last night. Apple said in the wake of allegations that it participates in feeding the U.S. government...

Visa Announces New Data Encryption Practices

Visa has announced new global best practices for data field encryption, also known as end-to-end encryption – a much-discussed solution in the wake of the Heartland Payment Systems breach. Announced by the global credit card company on Monday, these best practices are designed to further the...